About Skrill (Moneybookers)

General information about Skrill (MoneyBookers)

Skrill from Moneybookers, which now has around 21 million, mostly younger account holders from the gaming sector, ranks alongside PayPal as one of the world’s largest wallet systems for online payments. Skrill is available in 200 countries with 41 currencies and offers merchants a payment guarantee without chargebacks as well as the possibility to process credits (refunds).

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Skrill enables customers to make and receive payments without having to disclose personal financial data. Skrill is operated by Moneybookers Ltd. and Moneybookers USA Inc..

Type

Payments by eWallet

Further information can be found on the webpage of Skrill (http://corporate.skrill.com/).

Process flow chart

Skrill process flow

interface

Payment with Skrill via form interface

To make a Skrill payment via PPRO over a form, please use the following URL:

skrill.aspx

Key	Format	CND	Description	Beschreibung
OrderDesc	ans..768	M	Description of delivered products, services etc.	Beschreibung der gelieferten Waren, Einzelpreise usw.

Key	Format	CND	Description	Beschreibung
Language	a2	O	2-letter language code (e.g.. de) that should be preferred when presenting payment pages to the consumer	2-stelliger Sprachcode (z.B. de), der für die Zahlungsseiten für den Kunden bevorzugt werden soll
AccOwner	a3..50	O	Name of account holder. The name has to be in the format <firstname><whitespace><lastname>. Multiple fist names are allowed.	Name des Kontoinhabers. Der Name muss im Format <Vorname><Leerzeichen><Nachname> übergeben werden. Mehrere Vornamen sind dabei zulässig.
AddrCountryCode	a2	M	Country code for the account holder’s address, 2 characters according to ISO 3166.	Ländercode des Wohnortes des Kontoinhabers zweistellig gemäß ISO 3166
Email	ans..100	M	E-Mail address of account holder	E-Mail-Adresse des Kontoinhabers
AddrStreet	ans..100	M	Street name and house number	Straßenname und Hausnummer
AddrZIP	ans..10	M	Post code	Postleitzahl
AddrCity	ans..40	M	City	Ort

Parameters for payments with Skrill (Moneybookers)

Key	Format		CND	Description	Beschreibung
TransactionID	an..20		O	Unique transaction number from PPRO	Eindeutige Transaktionsnummer bei PPRO

Return parameters for URLSuccess, URLFailure and URLNotify with Skrill (MoneyBookers)

Credit with reference

credit.aspx

Key	Format	CND	Description	Beschreibung
OrderDesc	ans..768	O	Description of refunded goods, unit prices, merchant’s comment etc.	Beschreibung der gutgeschriebenen Artikel, Einzelpreise, Händlerkommentar etc.

Parameters for credit payments with Skrill via socket connection

Key	Format	CND	Description	Beschreibung
Status	a..30	M	OK, FAILED or AUTHORIZE_REQUEST	OK, FAILED oder AUTHORIZE_REQUEST

Response parameters for credit payments with Skrill via socket connection

Batch processing via the interface

This section describes the parameters which must be transferred within the data set (Record) for executing credits with Skrill and which information can be found within the response file about the payment status.

Following table gives an overview of all batch versions that are possible for a specific action and their specialities:

Action	Version	Description	Beschreibung
Credit	1.0 / 2.0	Standard version without return of parameter Code	Standardversion ohne Rückgabe von Parameter Code
	1.x / 2.x	with RefNr (valid for all versions other than 1.0)	mit RefNr (gilt für alle Versionen außer 1.0)

Description of the possible batch versions

The structure for a Skrill payment within a Batch file to be submitted is the following:

HEAD,<MerchantID>,<Date>,<Version>
SKRILL,Credit,<Amount>,<Currency>,<TransID>,(<RefNr>,)<PayID>
FOOT,<CountRecords>,<SumAmount>

Example for Master MID function:

HEAD,[Master]MerchantID,Date,2.x
Type,Action,[Slave]MID,Amount,Currency,TransID,Data (depends on Action)
FOOT,CountRecords,SumAmount

Key	Format	CND	Description	Beschreibung
Type	a..11	M	HEAD for Header, FOOT for Footer, SKRILL for Skrill	HEAD für Header, FOOT für Footer, SKRILL für Skrill
Action	a..20	M	The parameter Action defines the type of transaction: Credit	Der Action-Parameter definiert die Art der Transaktion: Credit (Gutschrift)

Description of fields within the record for Batch files

The record area within the response file for Batch transactions looks the following way:

HEAD,<MerchantID>,<Date>,<Version>
SKRILL,Credit,<Amount>,<Currency>,<TransID>,(<RefNr>,)<PayID>,<Status>,<Code>
FOOT,<CountRecords>,<SumAmount>

Key	Format	CND	Description	Beschreibung
Action	a..20	M	The parameter Action defines the type of transaction: Credit	Der Action-Parameter definiert die Art der Transaktion: Credit (Gutschrift)

Description of result parameters within the record for Batch files